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Last week, I met with one of my real estate friend over coffee and he was explaining on why he thinks mobile homes are a great investment. As I was talking to him, I realized there was a common theme between mobile homes and website hosting. You create this beautiful... read more

Several years ago, on a sudden whim while all our friends were buying homes in a new neighborhood, we reached early morning to register for a home ourselves. Our top two bids were not accepted as someone ahead in the line picked up the available plots. We immediately... read more

If I were to share the same post every single day on Facebook, what would my friends possibly do? Some of them might start ignoring my posts, others might stop following me and the highly impatient ones would un-friend me. Do you like to view new, different and... read more

My name is Urmila Singhal and I am the proud owner of Om Spark. Having spent 11 years in engineering at Microsoft, 5 of which were in the Search Advertising space, I am well versed in the mechanics of the Online space. Coming from a family that owned different types... read more

The fondest memories of a child are the different birthday parties and the games/activities during that day. As a child on my birthday, I was introduced to a type of scavenger hunt where an initial clue was given to you. As you solved each clue, you found a gift and a... read more

Everything I do or study, I would like to be able to explain to my 8 or 6 year old children. While dusting my bookshelf, I found an old book that spoke about different data structures in a lot of detail including code snippets from the 90’s. As I read through it, it... read more

From the time I have been a kid, I have always been fond of dancing. Surprise, when I started learning Bhangra (Punjabi,Indian style of dance) a couple of weeks ago, it was a strange concept trying to learn something new, coordinate it with music and be graceful at... read more

It is hard to believe but it is a year now that I have been actively blogging. When I started blogging, I did not want to spend the time in setting up a WordPress site. I took all of 5 minutes to setup Blogger and started with my first blog. I added a couple of... read more

Compilation of how to interview for a technical program manager: Interviewing to become a Program Manager from a different role: Introduction to what are the skills needed to become a Program Manager –... read more

Looking out of the windows to the gray skies and the drizzling rain I remembered that a year has passed before I realized it. Sometimes it feels like time is flying away and sometimes it feels like it has stopped and is watching us. The past year was a challenging... read more

We all make decisions, don’t you agree with me? A young child decides which toy or food to choose. An older kid might decide their friends or clothes to wear. As young adults we decide our career and partners. As we grow older we decide the house we buy or the money... read more

Most folks either have a depth of knowledge in an area or a breath of knowledge in a couple of areas. For example, if you are working on the fraud detection of your product, you will have in-depth knowledge of what is fraud, what are the rules to detect fraud, how do... read more

Late in the evening, I was clearing my emails on my home computer. My 7 year old son Shivam came to me and asked “Mama, what is cancer”. My face turned pale for a few seconds before I regained my attention and focus. Usually, any question posed by him including crazy... read more

Design questions (also known as thinking questions) in an interview are very interesting. People have a love-hate relationship with it. If you are an interviewer or an experienced interviewee, you love the design questions. Else, you might not be too fond of it. The... read more

I was 8 months pregnant with Meera and was approaching different General Manager’s across Microsoft about one of my ideas that I thought had a lot of potential to be part of the product. I was in awe to be meeting Randy Granovetter who was one of the initial founders... read more

As a little girl, my dad gave me total freedom. I was allowed to make all my decisions in life, choose my friends, and choose what I become when I grow up. Most of the friends I knew, their parents would decide their friends, the profession they chose and all major... read more

In the past couple of weeks, I have met many friends who have thought or wanted to move to Program Management (from a different role). This thought has always brought a shine in my eye and awakened my passion of why I moved to Program Management. In my previous life,... read more

Google Analytics is a very powerful tool that has many features which can be used for deep diving into for data and analytics. In this post, I discuss about: Different options of choosing the date range for getting the data, The different Metrics available High level... read more

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Urmila quickly and painlessly ironed out all of my technical issues related to my business website and email that had plagued me for many months. She is very pleasant and professional to work with. Sh…